In 1986, astronomer turned computer scientist Clifford Stoll had just
started working on a computer system at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
when he noticed a 75-cent discrepancy between the charges printed by
two accounting programs responsible for charging people for machine use.
Intrigued, he deduced that the system was being hacked, and he
determined to find the culprit. This is the re-enactment of how he
tracked down KGB cracker Markus Hess through the Ethernet to Hannover,
Germany, as is told in his best-selling book _ The Cuckoo's Egg:
Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage_ (1989). Stoll has
become a celebrity for being, as he terms himself, "a computer
contrarian".
